'Once you have opened its first page you won't be able to stop reading. A superbly plotted story with a brilliant twist'

A.N. Wilson

'A thriller with a difference. The plot is as taught as the prose is tight - both qualities reminiscent of Graham Greene'

Sunday Express

'A thriller in which crises of conscience are as tense as the escalating manhunt'

Guardian

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'The Statement blends conscience and guilt with fast-moving storytelling. Brian Moore is a man of profound human insight as well as a master storyteller ... the most subtle, most readable, least pushy of guides'

Sunday Telegraph

________________________'A thriller with a difference. The plot is as taught as the prose is tight - both qualities reminiscent of Graham Greene' - Sunday Express'Once you have opened its first page you won't be able to stop reading. A superbly plotted story with a brilliant twist' - A.N. Wilson'Brian Moore is a man of profound human insight as well as a master storyteller ... the most subtle, most readable, least pushy of guides' - Sunday Telegraph________________________THE SUPERB THRILLER FROM BRIAN MOORE WHICH INSPIRED THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL CAINE AND TILDA SWINTON________________________Pierre Brossard is on the run. For his life. From a determined squad of unknown hit-men. From his former 'friends'. From his past. Condemned to death in absentia by French courts for crimes against humanity during the war, he has been in hiding for over forty years. Now, perhaps, justice will be done.
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A reissued edition of Brian Moore's superb thriller
A reissued edition of Brian Moore's superb thriller
The Statement is a major motion picture, released in 2004, starring Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton and Charlotte Rampling

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781408826171
Publisert
2011-11-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
212 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter

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Brian Moore was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He twice won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been given a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection. The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood - winner of the Sunday Express 1988 Book of the Year - and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Six of his novels have been made into films - The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Cold Heaven, The Statement and Black Robe. Brian Moore died in 1999.